Client: Lisa Goines & H.
Tim Hoffman All signed copies to The Poster,
San Francisco

Influence: Arthur and Lucia K. Mathews

How could married life be anything
but an immense anti-climax? From tenderest childhood,
little girls entertain gauzy fantasies of Prince
Charming romance leading up to a brief but spectacular
ceremony in which they are the center and the star.
Something old, something new, something borrowed
and something blue, and a silver sixpence in her
shoe. That's where the story ends, with the vague
but pleasant prospect: "And they lived happily
ever after." From there on it all flows downhill
like water. Nothing about mortgage payments or
your husband's annoying personal habits that you're
stuck with now that you've said, "I do." It's all
Saturday night with no mention of Sunday morning.
Nothing about the next Prince Charming or Cinderella
who comes along, either.